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the world, and the whole supply is 

 shipped to London. This drive was 

 one of the red letter days of our 

 experience. We gathered most lovely 

 ferns, gold and silver, and others 

 remarkably rare and beautiful, and saw 

 many wonders in scenery and plant 

 life. 



Another remarkable drive was to 

 Bath, where is the famous hot sulphur 

 spring boiling out of the mountain, side 

 by side with a stream of cold water. 

 Both the hot and the cold water are 

 conveyed by pipes into a near-by 

 building provided with stone tanks for 

 bathing. Here sufferers from rheuma- 

 tism and all cutaneous diseases are 

 speedily cured by the hot baths. Dur- 

 ing our last trip we boarded a week at 

 the village and took the baths, to our 

 great delight. The hot sulphur water 

 soothed tired nerves and muscles, and 



